教育

• B.A. (音乐), 威斯康辛州路德 College, 2007
• M.M. (Jazz Performance and 音乐ology), Western Illinois University, 2009
• Ph.D. (Historical 音乐ology), University of 威斯康辛州-Madison, 2016

Background

My journey in music began in earnest when I received a beat-up guitar from my grandpa at the age of 12. I was hooked immediately and spent all of my time learning the instrument and studying my favorite rock and jazz guitar players. I began playing professionally in rock bands at the age of 15 and was active in my high school choir and band, where I learned to read music and play the clarinet. In college I learned music theory and became especially interested in the study of music history. I spent two years at Western Illinois University sharpening my jazz guitar skills while soaking up as much music history as I could, culminating in a thesis concerning the history of jazz guitar before 1942. 然后我攻读了博士学位.D. in historical musicology at the University of 威斯康辛州, focusing on the music of the late-19th and early 20th centuries, 尤其是歌剧. I taught as an adjunct lecturer at the University of 威斯康辛州 and at 威斯康辛州路德 College before receiving a full-time call in Fall 2017. I love teaching all facets of music history, theory, and performance to undergraduates. 我的妻子Janel, 我的儿子哈维和艾萨克, 我住在杰克逊, 威斯康辛州, and attend Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pewaukee, where I lead worship on Wednesday evenings.

教学

• 063/64，吉他1-2班
• MUS 105, History of American Popular 音乐
• MUS 163/263，吉他课
• MUS 210/220，音乐理论III & IV
• MUS 302/303，音乐史I & II
• 370，对位法
• 420美元，歌剧
• 440，音乐作曲

研究兴趣

My reSearch interests are rather diverse. My doctoral work focused especially on the economics and aesthetics of the early twentieth century German Künstleroper, 或“Artist-Opera." In my dissertation I sought to understand and explain why there was a small explosion of these idiosyncratic operas that used the creation of a musical composition or artwork as the focus of the plot. Over the course of this work I examined operas by Richard Strauss, 弗朗茨Schreker, 汉斯Pfitzner, 和恩斯特·克瑞克. My master's thesis centered on race, class, and trans-Atlantic identity in jazz guitar before 1942 and allowed me to interact with a number of notable guitarists, including Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian. I continue to be interested in canon formation and historiography in jazz and representations of "whiteness" within the genre. I’m currently working on a book project that stems from my dissertation work that will use the genre of the artist opera as a prime example of musical and artistic responses to the complex and occasionally chaotic economic, 至关重要的, and aesthetic environment of the Weimar period.

Selected 出版物 or Scholarly Works

出版物

• “作曲家.”  In 背景下的理查德·施特劳斯 edited by Joseph Jones and Morten Kristiansen. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

演讲

• “A first-class funeral”: 音乐al Politics, Modernism, and the Critical Reception of 弗朗茨Schreker’s Der singende Teufel. Presentation given at the conference of the Institute for Austrian and German 音乐al ReSearch, 萨里, 英格兰(在线), 2021.
• “喜剧结束了“弗朗茨·施雷克的 Christophorus 以及现代性的危险. Presentation given at the AMS-Midwest/SEM-Midwest conference, online, 2021.  
• Composing the Audience: 音乐 教育 Reform and the Reformation of the Composer in Weimar Germany. Presentation given at the Midwest Chapter of the 美国音乐学会, online, 2020.
• “No Profession So Hopeless”:  The Economic and Social Challenges of Composition During the Weimar Republic. Presentation given at the annual meeting of the 美国音乐学会/Society of 音乐 Theory, 圣安东尼奥, TX, 2018.
• 军国主义和. Zivilisation:  Ernst Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf as Composer-Opera. Presentation given at the Midwest Chapter of the 美国音乐学会, Chicago, IL, 2017.
• 理查德·施特劳斯的 插曲: A New Look at the German Artist-Opera. Presentation given at the Midwest Chapter of the 美国音乐学会, Chicago, IL, 2013.
• "Instant Classics":  Visualizing and Sounding Authenticity in the "Relic" Guitar. Presentation given at the Mid-America American Studies Association, Madison, WI, 2011.
• "Le Roi Invisible":  Oscar Alemán in Paris, 1933-1940.
• Presentation given at the Midwest Chapter of the 美国音乐学会, Iowa City, IA, 2010.

服务

专业的会员

• 美国音乐学会
• AMS-Midwest
• 大学音乐协会
• 音乐 Teachers' National Association

其他

• Coordinator of the WLC Jazz Festival
• Worship leader at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pewaukee